Store owner needs to relocate away from the jungle.
Out of experience, if the move “out of the jungle”, the jungle will follow them, and overtake another heretofore quiet, peaceful town.
Like locusts, they go where the fields are fertile to satiate their lust for taking.
There aren’t many safe havens left...nothing left but lock and load. The government will do nothing about it, so it will eventually be up to the people.